PAULSBORO — The results of a feasibility study regarding the Port of Paulsboro’s ability to be a construction site for a massive wind energy project that is being planned for off the coast of New Jersey were released Tuesday.

An artistic rendering of a wind energy converter. A new feasibility study says the Paulsboro Port will be a viable place to construct these converters to be shippped to the Atlantic Ocean for a wind energy project.

Atlantic Wind Connection commissioned the study, which measured the feasibility of constructing converter platforms for the New Jersey Energy Link at the Paulsboro Marine Terminal, also known as the Port of Paulsboro.

The study found that the port would be an ideal site for the construction project.

The New Jersey Energy Link will be an offshore electrical transmission cable, buried under the ocean, that will link energy resources and users throughout the state.

Converter platforms are approximately 20,000-ton offshore high-voltage direct current and alternate current substations necessary to the project.

Former New Jersey Governor Jim Florio joined representatives from the Atlantic Wind Connection, Assemblyman John Burzichelli, D-3 of Paulsboro, and multiple investors of the project when the study’s results were released on Tuesday.

“This project has the opportunity for many, many benefits,” Florio said. “This will be of great value to the consumers of this state.”

While the converters are being built, it will mean an average workforce of approximately 500 to 600 people over a period of 18 to 24 months in its first phase.

The potential of wind energy off the Jersey Shore is something that has been explored and utilized in a minimal way up until this point. When completed, the New Jersey Energy Link could carry up to 3,000 megawatts of electricity. It is expected to be built in three phases over 10 years, beginning in 2016, with the first phase expected to be online by 2019.

The company will lease a portion of the Port of Paulsboro to construct the converters once legislation is passed that would admit the New Jersey Energy Link into PJM’s Regional Transmission Plan.

“If you look around the United States today, New Jersey doesn’t have a lot of resources. But it does have this wind potential,” said John Breckenridge, a representative of Good Energies, an investor in the project. “New Jersey is unique in this opportunity. We’re very excited about this project.”